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This keeps getting repeated but it's not exactly true, 8chan was started because Fredrick Brennan had a shroom trip where he saw an Ouroboros and came up with t
by faissaloo 7y ago
This keeps getting repeated but it's not exactly true, 8chan was started because Fredrick Brennan had a shroom trip where he saw an Ouroboros and came up with the idea to make a 4chan where you could make your own board. People then ended up migrating over during GamerGate because Moot was shutting down discussion of it.
- zaksoup 7y ago> [...] shutting down discussion of [gamergate]. My, what an interesting way of saying "banning users posting sexually violent threats"
- panpanna 7y agoTo people dowvoting parent: please google gamergate Charlottenville
- s9w 7y agoNot only is there no connection between pro-gamergate and threats, it's literally the other way round. And Charlottesville has absolutely nothing to do with this whatsoever
- panpanna 7y agoLiterally the first item on a DGG search: "How Charlottesville and Gamergate are Completely Related" Second item: "Matthew Robert Warner: From GamerGate to Identity Evropa"
- leereeves 7y agoThe first item is an opinion piece from the very credible Xennial-in-Chief writing for brokeassstuart.com with no relevant facts. The second is about one person who is literally the only connection IdentifyEvropa found between the two groups. And what was that connection? He tweeted a few tweets about it. https://identifyevropa.org/tag/gamergate/ https://identifyevropa.org/tag/gamergate/ The lack of substantial links only provides evidence that there is no real connection.
- faissaloo 7y agoBy this logic Zoe Quinn is the reason for the rise of 21st century nazism.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoNo, but GamerGate is in the west.
- zaksoup 7y agoAh yes, the old "no you" argument.
- faissaloo 7y ago8chan's /gg/ board was really strict on that sort of stuff so I doubt it was just 'sexual violence' that was being censored.
- noobermin 7y agoNever hung around /v/ during those years, but my guess is it there was no censorship, it was just paranoia as usual. If they really cared so much about it, they could post on /b/.
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- soyguzzler 7y agoI was there and not only did the censorship was unexpected and uncalled for, it happened on /r/games at the same time also, which was very uncanny.
- hhjinks 7y agoNot only that, the catalyst was the most innocuous GamerGate take of the entire fiasco, which was TotalBiscuit's twitlonger about it, where he categorically condemned harassment, and rather used all the hubbub to talk about actual issues in gaming journalism. Nuking that entire thread might've been one of the biggest blunder in reddit history, alongside the Boston bomber fiasco.
- leereeves 7y agoIf you don't know, why are you posting a guess?
- noobermin 7y agoBecause moot wasn't a censoring type, went against his nature and 4chan in general.